Nature of man Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Man is hidden, well hidden, & this time we must make no mistake about it: this does not mean that he is there beneath…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The world and reason are not problems; and though we might call them mysterious, this mystery is essential to them, there can be no…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Memory is the irruption of other things in us.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Any commemoration is also a betrayal.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty